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ABOUT - Meet the Wyles Research Team:

Peter Wyles (Patriarch) - Father

Peter Wyles in Paignton - Holding His Father's WWII D-Day Medal (2024)

Diane Wyleswww.facebook.com/share/16kmtygAR7/ (Chief Archivist) – Mother

Diane Wyles - Chief Archivist

Charlotte Naomi Wyles - Assistant Archivist - Daughter of Peter & Diane - Sister of Adrian

Charlotte Wyles Carries-Out Essential Morale-Building Functions!

Adrian Wyles (Chief Field Researcher) Son & Father

St Leonard's Church - Deene - Kilby Lane

Gee Wyles (Field Researcher) Daughter-in-Law – Mother

All Saints Church - Easton-on-the-Hill

Mei-An Wyles (Assistant Field Researcher) Eldest Daughter – Grand Daughter

Mei-An Wyles (Left) with Younger Sister - St Mary's Church - Vestry Wall

Kai-Lin Wyles (Assistant Field Researcher) Youngest Daughter – Grand Daughter

At the Holiday Cottage - Easton-on-the-Hill

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Duddington To Tixover Bridge - Photograph Taken 27.7.2025

This genealogical protect – since defined as “The Wyles Family of Duddington” – was founded by Diane Wyles (nee Gibson) during 2008. Diane Wyles is the wife of Peter Wyles - and it is his grandfather – Archibald Brittain Wyles (1887-1941) – who was born in Duddington and links this family to that place. Indeed, it was after at least four-hundreds years of occupation of this village (perhaps longer) by the Wyles family that Archibald Brittain Wyles left to seek his fortune elsewhere (around 1905). This is not the end of story, as a number of Wyles family members remained in Duddington and lived-out their entire lives there (Agnes Sarah Wyles passed away in 1949 and is buried in Duddington Cemetery). If Agnes Sarah Wyles was the last known Wyles to live in Duddington, then the arrival of Adrian Wyles (and his family) by car one morning (March 7th) in 2009 - may have been the first Wyles to set-foot in Duddington for 59-years.

Diane Wyles used the developing internet to seek-out each birth certificate online for each generation of Wyles males – slowly but surely working backwards through the years, decades, and generations. Once the last one-hundred years had been traverses, the location ‘Duddington’ started to appear on each new document. Furthermore, the name of this place remained constant as the years ticked by. So much so, that around Xmas 2008 in Torquay, Diane Wyles informed her son – Adrian Wyles (who was visiting from his home in Sutton, South-West London) – of the development and suggested that a family expedition might be in order. This four-hour journey did take place during March 2009, and as Duddington was so small, the car travelled through the place in a matter of minutes – ending-up at the Duddington-Tixover Bridge (the first photograph of Duddington taken by the returning Wyles family).

After visiting the graveyard of St Mary’s Church and discovering around ten names all pertaining to the Wyles family – this is where the journey began. Although there is a family of Wyles people living next-door in the village of King’s Cliffe – we have never encountered anyone in Duddington named ‘Wyles’ today. This is an ongoing project that requires continuous attention as we do not know where the next clue will arise. Furthermore, where various and diverse data has been collected in the past but possessing no particular meaning or context – a small piece of further information can join all the dots together and progress the research. Diane Wyles continues to carry-out the online research – whilst Adrian Wyles and his family carry-out the practical field work by visiting Duddington once or twice a year for a day-trip – or on occasion staying locally in the area. All the collected information is discussed, contextualised, and added to the family tree, and to the various parts of the website.

Wyles Family Graves - King's Cliffe - All Saints & St James Church